Technology for clearing the field after harvesting
Straw harvesting is not the most profitable business in the life of agrarians, but it is a necessary action to ensure the next high harvest. Drying the soil after harvesting has a negative effect on the next harvest, because open access to the sun leads to increased capillary movement of water in the soil. Therefore, quick straw harvesting is extremely important.
The harvest is over, the field is covered with straw. It’s time to gather.
Straw harvesting is not the most profitable business in the life of agrarians, but it is a necessary action to ensure the next high harvest. Drying the soil after harvesting has a negative effect on the next harvest, because open access to the sun leads to increased capillary movement of water in the soil. Therefore, quick straw harvesting is extremely important.
Quick straw harvesting is divided into several stages, the execution time of which depends entirely on the execution methods:
- Straw baling time
- Time of removal from the field
Looking ahead, we can also add an economic factor – burning straw in furnaces.
The sooner the field is free of straw, the sooner you can use the tractor with the husker.
The following questions arise:
- How to collect straw quickly?
- What to transport?
You can harvest using traditional methods, which will delay the field cleaning for several weeks.
Telescopic loaders and platform trailers are also used. However, this type of collection requires a telescope for loading and a telescope for unloading on site. Also, personnel who are skilled in operating the equipment.
The Kobzarenko plant recommends using the result of technological development – the Mc Hale V660 baler. The V660 has no competitors in terms of collection speed. The collection speed is 20 km/h. A skilled tractor driver can pack 500 bales per shift. Imagine the scale, 500 bales!
Now the question arises, how to remove the bales from the field? We refuse the expense of two telescopic loaders and the methods of the Mesozoic period. We use the solution of the Kobzarenko Plant. Self-loading bale trucks PT-30, PT-24, PT-12. Only 1 tractor is needed, no telescopic loaders with service personnel. The PT-30 holds 30 bales in one go. So 16 trips to the field with one tractor, and 500 bales are lying on your farm.
Now we can talk about the secondary benefit.
Secondary benefits are obtained through heating or grain drying in bale pyrolysis combustion boilers. The topic of bale combustion raises 2 questions:
- How to dry it, because wet straw burns poorly?
- How to burn efficiently?
The Kobzarenko plant is responsible.
Of course, you can store it in the open air, but this way we will not dry the straw. One of the solutions is to use old hangars or build a new one, but this is all expensive and requires a lot of physical and financial costs. An effective solution is agrofibre! We spread the bales in the open air, cover them with agrofibre, and that’s it. Agrofibre has a structure that allows steam to escape, but rain to enter. To reduce the area occupied by the bales, you can use the telescopic loader extension shown below.
We hide the matches back in our pockets. There will be no bonfire for the whole village today. Pyrolysis combustion boilers on bales from the Kobzarenko Plant! We connect the boiler to a grain dryer/house/school/livestock shed and heat it with waste from grain crops. Wheat brings profit a second time! In fact, the use of straw collection and burning technology from the Kobzarenko Plant allows wheat to dry itself without spending money on gas.
Let’s summarize the final staff counts for service.
1 baler – 1 tractor – 1 tractor driver
1 bale truck – 1 tractor – 1 tractor driver
Straw-fired heat generator – 1 operator.
The result is a harvested field, stacked dry bales, and free grain drying or space heating.
